<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=3 color=navy face=Gentium><span lang=EN-GB
style='font-size:12.0pt;color:navy'>Ray, this is an interesting question and I
haven’t responded to it because I don’t know the answer and haven’t had the
time to check. I had previously found two examples of <<b><i><span
style='font-weight:bold;font-style:italic'>tus tha</span></i></b>> in TH, so
this may suggest (!!!careful, just a hypothesis, not yet worked out!!!) that
lenition may have occurred following <<b><i><span style='font-weight:bold;
font-style:italic'>s</span></i></b>> from historical /d/, but not from
original <<b><i><span style='font-weight:bold;font-style:italic'>s</span></i></b>>.
But to give you a brief answer: I don’t know.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>

<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=3 face=Gentium><span lang=EN-GB
style='font-size:12.0pt'>“No one has responded to this so I have done some
checks of my own. It seems to me that even after feminine nouns in the texts
with final 'th' where there is general agreement that the sound should be 'dh' the
mutation rule still applies.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>

<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=3 face=Gentium><span lang=EN-GB
style='font-size:12.0pt'>Therefore it could be said that one of the unfortunate
by-products of George's introduction of final 'dh' is that it has caused bad
grammar when revivalists drop the t,c,p, and d rule.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>